Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation

["Marc Stürmer" <mail@marc-stuermer.de>]

Am 04.12.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Michael Vetter:

> Yes, thats what I want to achive.

The sad thing about hibernation is, that it has always kinda been some 
kind of lackluster in the kernel and quite disappointing. It is a kind 
of area which does not get much love in the kernel for at least over one 
decade.

he number of computers it does not work is bigger than the number of 
computers it does work on correctly.

At least last time I tried it it was quite like that. Hibernation is 
disabled by default on Ubuntu 14.04, because it is so unreliable and 
broken.

In fact, there are three different kind of implementations around namely:

a) the thing in the main line kernel, which seems to work quite subpar, 
which is being used by the utility swsusp,
b) something in the user space being called uswsusp,
c) and an alternative implementation for the kernel being named "Tux on 
Ice."

Many do consider Tux on Ice the most reliable way to get hibernation up 
and running on Linux, unfortunately development seems to be stalled 
since always about one year and it is not part of the main line kernel.

So if you want to get this working reliable, good luck. You'll need it.